On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 20:04 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 20:37 +0200, Mario Kleinsasser wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > we are running abount eigth HP Blade servers with the official openvz > > > kernel from the debian repository. > > > On this blades we are faced with a LOT of those messages. > > > This messages are logged in dmesg and also in /var/log/messages. > > > > > > This hardware is useing the bnx2x chipset. The exactly same setup but > > > running as vmware virtual machine is not logging those messages. The > > > system is running stable but I would like to ask what this messages > > > are kind of? > > > > > > Maybe a combination of bnx2x firmware and vzeth? > > > > This looks like the result of a combination of LRO (aka TPA) and > > bridging. LRO should be disabled automatically on interfaces that have > > bridging or forwarding enabled, but there is nothing to stop you > > enabling it again. > > Actually, that automatic behaviour was only added in Linux 2.6.27. So > you need to disable LRO manually, either using ethtool or the bnx2x > module parameter disable_tpa. > > Ben. > > Many thanks for your answer! I will set the module parameter within the next few days. If it resolvs the "problem" I will give feedback here. Thats why I like the Debian community! Mario. > -- > Ben Hutchings > Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. >
